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Secondly: Yeah, a new chapter is there I've already come up with an ending (but don't worry, it's not coming too soon). So stay tuned if you want to know how the story continues.

Have fun with the new chapter

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It had been for days since Ezekiel collapsed. And they found…. nothing. Ezekiel was still lying in his bed, showing no other symptoms than forming those sweat pearls on his forehead and keeping his eyes closed.

The mood was on its lowest point. Stone was snapping on Cassandra every time she tried to say something motivating – or when she tried to say something at all. Jenkins hid behind the books, not wanting to admit that he had no clue where to look for a cure for Ezekiel. And Eve?

Well, the guardian was sitting with her librarian the whole time. Dark circles under her eyes showed sleepless nights and the others weren't sure when she ate properly the last time.

Today was not different. She was in Ezekiel's room, holding his hand and snoozing uncomfortably on a wooden chair beside Ezekiel's bed. She startled, looked onto the library's thief and sighed deeply. 'This can't continue like that' she thought. He shouldn't be lying there.

And then, she didn't even knew why, she started to speak. She didn't even know why she hadn't tried it before.

"Ezekiel, you've got to wake up now. It's ridiculous", she stopped, thinking of what she could say. "You are not someone who can rest the whole day. And you know that. So stop acting like that and wake up already." She looked at him, but there wasn't a move. What did she think? That he would follow her orders? He wouldn't do that, even if he was awake.

"Ok, maybe that was a bit harsh" she said then. "I mean, you are not a soldier. Though you've been through more things than many of the soldier's I know. You know, Stone is always annoyed of you, and to be honest, I guess we all are sometimes. But… truth is, we miss you." She paused before she continued. "I miss you. You give life to the library. You are our little brother… kind of."

What was that? Did she saw a finger move? No, it can't be; he couldn't have heard her, could he?

In the annex

"This makes no sense!" Stone called out. Cassandra and Jenkins looked up on him, frightened of his sudden exclamation.

He looked to them. "I mean, why he should just fall… asleep. He shouldn't be like that." He paused, as if he awaited a contradictory of the other two. But there came nothing. "I mean… we find nothing. And don't tell me that there must be something anywhere, because there isn't" he said, looking over to Jenkins.

"Mr. Stone, I…" Jenkins stopped. He sighed. "I apologize. I thought that we would find something, but since Mr. Jones never showed any other symptoms, I don't even know where to start."

He stopped again, hoping that Stone would scream on him for being so… stubborn. But he didn't.

"Can't we start anywhere else?" Cassandra quietly asked. She was scared that Jake would shout at her again, so she tried not to say anything that would make him furious.

Jenkins nodded. "Well, that would be a good idea… actually…." he started to think loudly. " I've came up with an idea, but it was too crazy in the beginning of Mr. Jones… rest."

"What idea?" Jake asked. He tried to hold back his emotions, but obviously, it was very hard for him. Now that Ezekiel wasn't there, he had the feeling that his…. friend… no, his brother was missing. Although he would never admit it in front of the others, he knew that there were a kind of family.

"Well, as Mr. Jones collapsed, I thought that we could just use an anti-spell to cure him or that he would wake up by himself. But since it's been four days, I came to the conclusion that it must be something else."

Cassandra and Jake looked curiously. They also were tired, but now that Jenkins maybe came up with a solution, they were wide awake.

The care taker was in his thoughts when he suddenly waved them to go somewhere. "Ok, follow me. Maybe this isn't as crazy as I thought first."

"Where do we go?" Cassandra asked. They went outside of the annex.

"There's a room where there are some…. more of the valuable pieces of magic" Jenkins replied as they continued to walk.

"Okay" he said as they stopped in front of a wooden door. "This is the oriental room."

"Oriental room?" Jake asked. "What is in there? Aladdin's miracle lamp, or what?" he tried to laugh, but as he saw Jenkins' face, he knew that this was no joke.

"Actually, yes. And some more things out of 'Tales of 1001 nights'. I have to look onto something there to make sure that my idea can work."

And with that, he opened the door.

Inside, the room was not very different to the other room of the library. There where artefacts which were somewhat familiar to them. There, next to them, was the golden lamp. And next to it, they saw the flying carpet.

In the middle of the room, they saw the bag that Ezekiel had found some days before.

"What do we do here?" Cassandra asked. She looked at the lamp, asking herself if they could really use it for making a wish as it was said in the tales. She knew instantly what she would wish. However, she washed away this thought because she knew that there was no way to use magic again. Not if somebody would be hurt, at least.

"I have to take a closer look at the bag" Jenkins said and moved forward to it. "You know, it was strange because in the old book, there is no bag like this. But in the edited book, it is mentioned."

"And how can this help Ezekiel?" Stone asked impatiently.

"Well, in the book, there is a tale where a poor boy lost his money which he should have brought to his parents. On his way home, he met an old woman who was a magician. She felt pity for him. She gave him a bag, but there was nothing in it. She told him, it would fill with is biggest wish, but only if he was honest and would support his family."

"And the bag filled with money" Jake concluded. He looked at the bag where golden coins blinked out of it.

"But how can that help?" Cassandra said. "I mean, this is a nice story, but it has nothing to do with this spell…"

"Well, actually it has" Jenkins said. "This was a detector spell. And the bag is a symbol for someone's deepest wish. So I had the thought…"

"That the spell and the bag have both influence onto Ezekiel!" Cassandra said excitedly. "That's amazing!"

"Yes it is…." Jenkins said, but was interrupted from Jake's mobile.

"Yeah" Jake said as he picked up. "What is it?" He paused as he listened to the other voice. Suddenly he got excited. "What? Okay, we coming…" And then he hung up.

"What happened?" Cassandra asked him curiously. It must have been something good because he seemed to be pretty excited.

"This was Eve" Jake said and went for the door. "Ezekiel's awake!"

Ooooh, what's happening next? What do you think?

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